VIPER's Albert Xiao Featured in "People of Penn"
When University sophomore Albert Xiao joined the first class of the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), a dual degree program in Penn Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, he had already interned at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Caltech. Read more and watch the video here.
Albert Xiao is from Berkeley, California, a place he proclaims as the best place on earth. Albert graduated from Albany High School in Albany, California, and in the fall of 2012, he matriculated to the University of Pennsylvania. Albert is majoring in Materials Science Engineering and Chemistry and hopes to conduct research on photovoltaic cells. In high school, Albert participated in various internships and research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Caltech that inspired him to pursue a future in engineering and alternative energy. For Albert, the VIPER program was the perfect combination of these aspirations. Albert's research has explored inexpensive efficient solar energy conversion, specifically electron transfer rates in CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells, as part of Prof. Christopher B. Murray’s Group. Albert enjoys cooking, photography, and swimming for hours on end.